tim bluhm - the soft adventure ep / colts

 

(California Recordings - 2003)

1. Tear It Down
2. Give Me Some More
3. Spying On Your Teen
4. The Only Solution
5. Thinking of Home and of Mother
6. The Soft Adventure
7. I Can't Stay
8. Tiny Blue Coffin
9. Life In the City
10. Spotless As You
11. The Bad Always Wins
12. Pick It Up (Requiem for the Rolling Machine)
13. Are You Making Your Way?
14. Sadness of the Masses
15. Rose
16. In My Time

 

Packaged on a single CD, The Soft Adventure EP is a collection of his newest recordings, while Colts is his "lost album" from 1996. The songs on Bluhm's new EP The Soft Adventure EP are crafted with a bird's-eye view, flying over landscapes and swooping down to inspect the details that make personal lives personal: the humorous, the curious, the vulnerable, the sarcastic and the earnest. Colts, which was recorded on a four-track in 1996, chronicles a dark period that Bluhm glibly calls his "indoor lifestyle," and the subsequent escape back into light. The songs are filled with longing, tenderness, resignation and regret..

 

THE SOFT ADVENTURE EP:
Recorded by Dean Kattari and Ricardo Gomez at Dark Signals Studio, Oakland, CA in the fall of 2001
Mixed by Michael Winger / Mastered by Kevin Ink
Photo by Tim Bluhm
Greg Loiacono's voice is heard on track 4
All songs written by Tim Bluhm ©2003 Little Sur (ASCAP).
COLTS:
Recorded by Rob Baldwin and Tim Bluhm in the winter of 1995/1996 in San Francisco, CA
Rob Baldwin's voice is heard on track 13
Mixed by Michael Winger / Mastered by Kevin Ink
All songs written by Tim Bluhm ©2003 Little Sur (ASCAP) except track 13 by Greg Loiacono ©2003 Poncen Music (ASCAP).